Memory

The lightweight tier of user memory: confirmed brief answers (destination, aspect, language, flow, storyboard, voice, style preset) persisted on the same two-tier split as assets — project .media/preferences.json (committed, the team inherits it) and personal ~/.media/preferences.json. A value earns the personal tier by being confirmed in two different projects, so a one-off choice never pollutes the global defaults.

Only what the user actually confirmed gets recorded — never an inferred or defaulted value. How workflows consume these (a remembered value becomes the recommended default with a receipt, and never skips a question) is the brief contract’s rule: hyperframes/references/brief-contract.md § 2, Remembered defaults.

Recipes — frozen video bundles

The heavyweight tier of user memory: one approved run frozen as a named, versioned bundle — frame.md, the storyboard skeleton (structure kept, content blanked to per-frame fill-ins), the brief skeleton (from BRIEF.md when the project has one — reusable frontmatter kept, run-shape and prose blanked), and the confirmed brief values. Same two tiers: project .media/recipes/<name>/ (committed) and ~/.media/recipes/<name>/ (a freeze is already a confirmed bundle, so it promotes immediately — no two-project rule). Re-freezing a name bumps version and archives the old folder as <name>@v<N>.

The freeze is offered once after the final approval (hyperframes/references/review-loop.md § 4), and the intent layer (/hyperframes → references/intent-interview.md, step 1) checks for a match before its first question. Adopting a recipe fills the brief, the design spec, and the storyboard skeleton — and unlike preferences it may skip the questions it answers: the bundle was approved as a whole, and adoption itself is the question.

Files

• .media/manifest.jsonl: machine SSOT, one JSON record per line
• .media/index.md: agent-readable table (id, type, dur, dims, path, description)
• .media/preferences.json: the project’s remembered defaults (committed)
• ~/.media/: global cross-project reuse cache (content-addressed, SHA-256)
• ~/.media/preferences.json: personal remembered defaults (promoted after two projects)
• .media/recipes/<name>/: frozen video bundles — recipe.json + frame.md + storyboard skeleton (committed)
• ~/.media/recipes/<name>/: personal recipe tier (promoted on freeze)
• ~/.media/misses.jsonl: local-only resolve misses, including intent text for --stats